Chapter 59: Mocktails, Food and Cats - Silent Noah Brand...
"Ms. Lin, don't you have any work to do today?" Sugishima Jun'e asked, holding a cup of tea.
Coconut heard the noise, slowly got up and yawned like a cat.
Hiroki Kashimura put his hand under the cat's head, and Coconut rubbed the boy's palm obediently.
Hearing the girl's question, Lin Xi sighed.
"I can steal a moment's leisure from this busy life." (Note 1)
Then he took out a pile of paper documents from the system backpack.
Both of them ignored the sudden appearance of something in Lin Xi's hand.
Hiroki Kashimura: I'm used to it. It's Shibahara-sister's other-dimensional pocket.
Jun'e Sugishima: I'm used to it. Nothing Sister Lin does is strange to me.
They came forward to look at the information.
"Fengtan Group? Healing Center? Miss Lin, you..." Just as Sugishima Jun'e was about to speak, Lin Xi stuffed the newspaper in her hand into her hand.
"According to the reports, the director of the healing center has been arrested," Lin Xi said. "The children were also rescued early and handed over to the police. This was all thanks to the valuable clue provided by Xiao Chunzhi. To protect the children, including you, the reports have omitted their information, simply stating that it was a 'report from a concerned citizen'... However, official reports always focus on good news and not bad news."
Lin Xi pointed at the document. "This is Amuro-kun's report. The healing center is just a transit point. The front end is the 'suppliers' distributed in various industries, such as psychologists, teachers, and other practitioners who have contact with minors. Yoshiki Ryuji is one of them."
"They will conduct a preliminary 'screening' of the children they come into contact with, examining their backgrounds, and select those who are neglected and marginalized by society, and send them as 'commodities' to the treatment center for 'processing'."
"After being 'processed' into puppets that don't resist, they are treated as genuine 'commodities' and flow into the hands of buyers at the back end. Some are group buyers, such as gangs and special venues, while others are individual buyers, such as wealthy businessmen and politicians."
"The police only destroyed the transfer station. There are still many front-end 'suppliers' and back-end 'buyers' who have not been discovered. They have done a good job of keeping the information confidential."
Sugishima Jun'e looked serious and quickly finished reading the report.
"Ms. Lin, what can I do for you?"
Her eyes were bright and burning with light.
Lin Xi was amused by her and reached out to poke her nose.
"Ms. Lin!"
The girl covered her nose with her hands in embarrassment.
"Study hard! Children should behave like children!" Lin Xi said seriously, "You should focus on your studies and not worry about these things that have nothing to do with you..."
Sugishima June: Eh…?
Miss Lin's spoken language suddenly became very strange.
But she still answered seriously: "Yes! I will try my best!"
"Good! Very energetic!"
She turned to Kashimura Hiroki, "Hiroki-chan too!"
Hiroki Kashimura blinked, nodded obediently, and then pointed at the information and said, "Sister Shibahara, if we need to collect evidence or something, Noah can help."
Lin Xi touched his chin.
She also wanted Noah to help.
As the saying goes, wherever you go, you leave a trace. This is true in the real world, and even more so in the online world—and in the online world, no firewall can stop Noah. (Note 2)
but!
Noah is just a child of zero years old!
Lin Xi always felt guilty about employing child labor when making it work.
Kashimura Hiroki seemed to see through Lin Xi's thoughts and said, "Sister Shibahara, artificial intelligence and humans grow at different scales. They need to absorb more knowledge to grow faster."
"If you ask him to help, he will be very happy."
Lin Xi rubbed Kashimura Hiroki's head.
The feel is top-notch. The last time something felt this good was Conan's head.
Is this the brain of a genius? Even the feel is so special!
"OK, let little Noah help."
She pulled out one of the files, which contained information about Hirikawa Jijin.
His fat face was printed on the color photo, and he was smiling hollowly at Lin Xi through the paper.
As the person in charge of the transit station, Hirikawa Jijin must know a lot of things.
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Dim interior.
Hirikawa Jijin sat quietly in the chair.
In front of him sat a man wearing an olive-colored suit and oval black-framed glasses. He had a long, thin face, sparse eyebrows, a serious expression, and a deep gaze.
It's Public Security Police Officer Kazami Yuya.
He stared at Hirikawa Jijin and spoke again, "Hirikawa Jijin. These contact details were found on your phone. How do you explain that while you were committing serious crimes at the healing center, you were frequently in contact with these people, including our country's congressman and registered members of a violent gang?"
The public security found Hirikawa Jijin as soon as they took control of the rehabilitation center and obtained his mobile phone.
The police obtained his contact list, call logs and text message records on his mobile phone, but the text messages were cryptic and only covered the past three days, which was not enough to serve as evidence for the arrest of the above-mentioned people. They could only be used as a reason to investigate them.
The investigation into these lawmakers and gang members is also full of obstacles...
Hirikawa Jijin's chubby face twitched, and he smiled and said, "Don't embarrass me. I've already said that, those are just personal relationships. How would they know that little about me? I've definitely told you everything I know. As for the things you keep asking about, I don't know how I can answer you."
Kazami Yuya slammed the table and said, "Stop quibbling, Hirikawa Jijin! Even if you say that, we will investigate them! If you confess now, we can still consider it a confession and give you leniency!"
Hirikawa Jijin's eyes rolled around: "Well, I don't want to cause trouble for your work, but I really don't know anything..."
Yuya Kazami was furious.
This guy looks polite, but he is actually very smooth. He has said all the same things over and over again, but he hasn't said anything of value.
It's so hateful.
If Hirikawa Haruhito could provide testimony regarding their transactions, the resistance to the public security investigation would not be so great.
A voice came from the headset. Hearing the instructions, Yuya Kazami gathered the documents on the table and left the interrogation room.
"Keep an eye on him," he instructed the guard at the door.
The guard nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
Yuya Kazami put the information in a briefcase and walked out of the police station.
It was approaching evening, and the streets were mostly filled with office workers coming out for lunch after work. Kazami Yuya walked into a department store, pushing a shopping cart, seemingly another office worker shopping after work.
As he passed the canned food aisle, he paused, took the cans down, and stared at them, as if assessing their taste and considering whether to buy them.
But his mouth was saying:
"Mr. Furuya, Hirikawa Haruhito still refuses to say anything."
Across the shelf, the golden-haired undercover agent seemed to be lost in thought.
Among the people who contacted Hirikawa Jijin, there was one person who was more troublesome.
Councillor Tomomi Yaga.
He is the governor of Nagano Prefecture (Note 3) and a member of the House of Representatives. Japan's upper echelons of power are rife with factions, and within political parties there are also many complex political factions.
Yaga Chiya is the leader of a more powerful faction, with great power and many supporters.
Due to their influence, the police were unable to conduct a direct violent search, while Yagami Tomomi denied everything and believed it was a frame-up by political opponents.
Senior public security officials believe that this child abuse case has a very bad social impact. If a member of parliament is involved, it may become another major scandal in Japanese politics. Therefore, they are inclined to keep the matter quiet.
The two people belonging to the Public Security Intelligence Group were also under pressure from within.
Everything I do is incredibly slow, and when I ask about it, the answers are evasive. Internal information is out of sync, and my boss is almost blunt about it. So, that's the end of the matter.
After all, undercover agents are not police officers.
They are more like tools than people. They have to put aside their personal emotions and mechanically bring back intelligence. However, it is the people at higher levels who really make this intelligence work and make decisions.
Officials protect each other, who can guarantee that they won’t be the next one to be exposed?
After listening to Yuya Kazami's report, Toru Amuro put the puffed food in front of him back on the shelf.
"It's okay, just leave it as it is, Kazami."
"But, but, Mr. Furuya..."
"Without solid evidence, it's indeed difficult to bring a person of social influence to justice. Don't worry, Kazami," said Amuro Toru, his expression unperturbed. "Just follow up as usual and keep an eye on Hirikawa Haruhito."
Yuya Kazami swallowed his saliva.
He looked at his calm boss across the shelf and straightened his back involuntarily: "I will do it, Mr. Furuya!"
Mr. Furuya is now undercover in a very dangerous organization.
Under such circumstances, he and another colleague from the Metropolitan Police Department were able to obtain criminal evidence of child abuse. He is truly worthy of being called Mr. Furuya!
Undercover work is dangerous and hard, and as a subordinate, he must do his best to do what he can for Mr. Fūya!
Come on, Yuya Kazami! For Mr. Furuya, and for Japan's future, work hard!
Toru Amuro:......
The subordinate on the opposite side suddenly got angry for no apparent reason.
Yuya Kazami couldn't help but ask again, "So, how's it going on your side, Mr. Furuya?"
Are you okay?
Amuro Toru was stunned for a moment, then his expression softened.
A confident smile appeared on his lips, the kind that would put you at ease at first sight: "I'm fine."
They put the merchandise on the shelves back to its original state, passed by each other in the next merchandise area, and walked away.
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Lin Xi's home.
"Meow."
Coconut yelled.
Noah in the computer reluctantly followed suit: "Meow."
Coconut tilted his head in confusion and called out again: "Meow~"
Noah also made a sound: "Meow~"
coconut:?
How does this computer learn to speak!
"Meow!"
It bared its teeth and claws in anger.
You're a tape recorder, stop talking like a cat!
Noah couldn't help but repeat: "Meow!"
For a moment, the house was filled with meows one after another, and the room was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Lin Xi held back her laughter, grabbed the coconut cat by the scruff of its neck, lifted it into her arms, and stroked its head to comfort it.
Coconut rubbed Lin Xi's hand unhappily, making a threatening purring sound.
As a result, Noah was silent for a while and then made the same snoring sound.
Lin Xi finally couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The two children next to her were infected by her laughter and also raised the corners of their mouths.
Noah: ...
It displayed a large, speechless symbol on the screen: [→n→].
After being connected to the Internet, it became much smarter. At least it would not be fooled by Lin Xi and treat it as a bag of cat food.
The parrot-like scene originated from two children's computer coursework.
The homework assigned by the teacher was to create a program that could be run.
This was a small matter for Hiroki Kashimura, as he had already done a lot of similar things, but it was still a novel task for Jun'e Sugishima.
She spent an afternoon creating a simulation program.
The general operating logic is as follows: automatically record audio, analyze information, then retrieve appropriate voiceprint information from the existing audio library, and repeat the information contained in the audio with a new voice.
Jun'e Sugishima ran a small program on her computer.
The result alarmed Noah, the native of computers.
At the instigation of Lin Xi, who loved to watch the fun, Noah also joined in.
Its original voice used a synthesized electronic sound that was neither male nor female, but now, at Lin Xi's suggestion, we recorded the voices of everyone in the family: Lin Xi's, Sugishima Jun'e's, Kashimura Hiroki's, and Coconut Cat's.
After collecting enough audio data, Noah analyzes each person's voiceprint and then synthesizes a new language.
It was just like the kind of stupid little toy Lin Xi had seen before, the one that would repeat what others said in a weird accent and shake in a weird way.
Now Noah can speak with all of their voices without feeling out of place.
"Xiao Chunzhi is really amazing." Lin Xi praised her generously.
Sugishima Jun'e silently took out the black iron mask and covered her blushing face.
"Thank you for the compliment."
Lin Xi: "Of course, Xiao Hongshu and Noah are also very good."
Hiroki Kashimura:?
Being suddenly called out, he looked up blankly.
Noah's voice changed to a neutral electronic voice, and he responded, "Thank you for the compliment. If I had more people's voice materials, I could perfectly simulate the voices of more people."
Lin Xi happily drank a sip of tea: "That won't do. It's okay for special purposes, but if it's used in ordinary people's daily lives, it will scare them."
Think about it, the parents on the other end of the phone are not parents, friends are not friends, and lovers are not lovers.
If this technology is obtained by someone with bad intentions, a new type of scam will immediately emerge that uses the voices of acquaintances to borrow money.
Therefore, please confirm your identity before transferring money and do not leave any opportunities for new types of fraud.
She turned off the program and allowed Noah to hack into the public security database.
In the report given to her by Toru Amuro and Kagemitsu Morofushi, the section on Haruhito Hirikawa was not long, only a few pages.
According to them, after they reported the photos and audio materials to the police (in the form of an email, with quite provocative words, probably about the incompetent government and police... If Lin Xi hadn't known that these two were undercover, she would have really thought that they despised the police), the healing center was directly shut down and Hirikawa Jijin was taken away.
It's been so long, you should have found something by now, right?
Lin Xi doesn't like repetitive work.
Why not copy homework if you can?
The computer hummed for a while, and then displayed a dense display of information about Hirikawa Jijin.
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(Note 1: From Li She's "Inscription on the Monk's Residence at Helin Temple" in the Tang Dynasty.)
(Note 2: This is a famous quote from Edmund Rocca, the father of forensic science.)
(Note 3: The governor is equivalent to the governor of a province in China.)
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